Just days after an assessment of The Lives of Others in the New York Review of Books by Timothy Garton Ash, the very sort of liberal democrat neo-Leninists like Slavoj Zizek condemn more harshly than the most hegemonic-minded neo-con ( "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth"), Zizek offers his own take for In These Times.